Friday, February 09, 2001

I've been reading a lot about the decline of Pyra, the company behind my beloved Blogger. I'm hardly a web junkie, but in some much more human sense, I've always felt some sort of connection to the people behind Blogger. (Creepy? Perhaps.) They certainly don't know me. They've never read my blog, but I've read theirs. Their vision of what Blogger could be, and their own quirky personalities helped put a human face on a "hot" company. Reading the personal report by one of the Bloggerfolk about exactly what went wrong upset me, largely because I identified so closely with it. My fear in life has always been that I'm a dreamer, not so much a doer. It scares me that maybe none of my big dreams will ever materialize. I'll think about them too much; I'll outline exactly how my ideas will be executed, and then I'll sit back and smile. That's not what the people at Pyra did. They had an idea, and they went with it. That's why Blogger exists. That's why .righter rants. exists. Personally, I'm wildly impressed. Unfortunately, the world can be this terribly unfair place where nobody cares so much what I think (slightly melodramatic and untrue). I'm just too idealistic. I can't seem to accept the fact that a company made up of great people with great ideas just went defunct. If they can't make it, what on earth will I do?

:: posted at 2/09/2001 01:21:00 AM | link | | ^top

Sunday, February 04, 2001

Honestly, I'm a little bizarre. I know most people make New Year's Resolutions, but I forgot. So I'm going to make a February resolution instead: post more (much more!) on this silly little excuse for a weblog. It's getting ridiculous, and I'm sick of making excuses.

I don't know when it first became official news, but I was very sad to hear that Pyra, the company behind Blogger (a lovely little tool that powers this blog and thousands of better blogs), is going out of business. You can read the whole story here, on Evhead, which is the personal weblog of Pyra's co-founder. Meg, Pyra's other founder, also wrote about leaving Blogger; her account was actually rather upsetting. (Her blog is one of my favorites-- check it out.) I was very sad to hear the news, myself, because I honestly think that Blogger was a great idea. Oh well. It's still working, lucky for me.

As for my life, suburban monotony has taken over, but almost in a nice, familiar kind of way. I started reading a book that seems really good, Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell. I'm only on page four (I really just started it), but there's something about it that's very readable... if I could describe a book as "charismatic" (though I realize that doesn't make a whole lot of sense), I think that's how I'd describe this book so far. From what I've read about it, it's about a very driven woman who must take time out of her life to take care of her grandmother, who used to be a singing star. The book chronicles their relationship, and the protaganist coming to terms with the disintegration of her grandmother and her old neighborhood. Hmmm. The way I've described it, I think it must sound fairly boring. Oh well. It's not. It moves quickly. I'd say this is probably a woman book though. (If you think that exists, which I do, feminist though I am.:-)

Anyway, I'll continue blogging as long as Blogger will let me. Maybe longer. We'll see.

:: posted at 2/04/2001 11:17:00 PM | link | | ^top

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